LOCAL Parent blows whistle on choking game Johnny...

April 13, 2006

LOCALParent blows whistle on choking game Johnny Johnson was curious to check out the new game his classmates chatted about at recess at Moccasin Elementary School. But minutes after the 10-year-old regained consciousness after blacking out in the boy's bathroom, he told his fourth-grade friends to count him out in the future. "It's scary," he said. Known by a dozen different names, the game should be called deadly, warns Johnny's mother, Lisa Johnson. A1Ontwa Township may loan ambulance funds The Edwardsburg Ambulance Service needs a new ambulance and the Ontwa Township board of trustees has decided to try and help. The board voted this week to approve the purchase of a new ambulance contingent on its being able to loan $60,000 to the service from its wastewater treatment fund. The ambulance service has $55,000 in cash toward the purchase. The vehicle's cost would be $115,000 because the service is trying to buy the unit directly from the factory, thus saving on a dealership commission. B1Money tops Three Oaks Township agenda Just four weeks after adopting the fiscal year's annual budget, Three Oaks Township officials dealt with a host of money matters during the recent township board meeting. From officials' wages to communications contracts to potential grants for a new firetruck, trustees spent much of the two-hour session discussing how best to spend -- or save -- the taxpayers' money. B1